UBUNTU-CVE-2026-119197

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UBUNTU-CVE-2026-119197

Summary:

Details: pyasn1 is a generic ASN.1 library for Python. Prior to 0.6.5, binary REAL decoding builds a large mantissa one octet at a time by shifting a growing integer and slicing the remaining byte string. Attacker-controlled ASN.1 includes a binary-encoded REAL with a large mantissa and reaches BER, CER, or DER decode(), with or without a schema containing REAL. RealPayloadDecoder.valueDecoder repeatedly performs a left shift, OR, and suffix copy for every mantissa octet, making decode time quadratic in mantissa length. A comparatively small REAL value can hold a decoding worker on one CPU core for seconds or longer and cause availability loss. This issue is fixed in version 0.6.5.

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-119197, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-119197, https://github.com/pyasn1/pyasn1/commit/ce3ec3390784780a530047e0e77be5ff457636a4, https://github.com/pyasn1/pyasn1/pull/132, https://github.com/pyasn1/pyasn1/releases/tag/v0.6.5, https://github.com/pyasn1/pyasn1/security/advisories/GHSA-mm57-4v3p-rchx